In a sentence
Six example sentences with identity, each labelled with its topic.
Adolescents try on a dozen selves in five years, and the identity that survives usually holds for decades afterwards.
Psychology
The novel follows one clerk whose identity stays recognisably the same across sixty years and four different countries.
Literature
If every cell is replaced within a decade, philosophers ask what carries a person's identity from the child to the pensioner.
Philosophy
The film asks whether the amnesiac keeps his identity, since his habits and kindness survive when every memory is gone.
Movies
His identity as a pass-first playmaker survived three coaches and two trades, and teammates still describe him the same way.
Basketball
Biographers trace Lincoln's identity from the storytelling farm boy to the president, finding the same dry humour in both.
History
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